Chapter 611: The Changing Of Landscapes From Past To Present

Longevity Valley was a secret realm the Medicine King Sect had discovered by chance long ago. It earned its name from the valley's abundant yield of raw materials needed to refine the Longevity Pill.

As the name implied, the Longevity Pill extended a cultivator's lifespan. It was the Medicine King Sect's most closely guarded secret and the very cornerstone of their immense wealth.

How much lifespan a pill granted depended on its quality. The highest-grade Longevity Pill surpassed even the Heavenly Capital Feather Transformation Pill, capable of adding a full thousand years to one's life.

Refining the Longevity Pill demanded ingredients of the highest quality and a specific array: the Salvation Longevity Grand Array, which used the true Medicine King Cauldron as its core, supported by eighty-one Mini Medicine King Cauldrons. The Longevity Verdant Force had to be infused continuously throughout the forty-nine-day alchemical process before a batch could be completed.

Complex as the process was, the result was undoubtedly worth the effort. What set the Longevity Pill apart from other lifespan-extending Curios was that it could be taken repeatedly. Each subsequent pill's effect would be significantly weaker than the last, eventually becoming ineffective altogether, but this was still far superior to one-time-use life-extending items that became useless after a single ingestion.

The Void Sea was vast and boundless, and crossing it naturally required immense courage. The Longevity Pill and the Oneiric Seasons Array, which could place an entire sect's cultivators into a dormant state, were the two pillars the Medicine King Sect relied upon.

This Longevity Pill is truly a fine treasure. Li Fan mused inwardly. A pity the Medicine King Sect sold most of their stock before departing, exchanging them for reserve resources. The remainder are likely in the hands of their elders.

Li Fan checked the Medicine King Cauldron's inventory. Finding no Longevity Pills among the resources, he couldn't help but feel a twinge of regret. Then he reminded himself that the vast majority of the Medicine King Sect's cultivators were now in his grasp. There would be no shortage of ways to make them refine pills for him. That was some consolation.

First, let's see what state Longevity Valley is in. If it has remained undiscovered all this time, that would be ideal. After several thousand years, one can only imagine how much the herbs inside have grown. If the Myriad Immortals Alliance has already found and developed it... well, that's fine too.

Li Fan reviewed the materials required to refine the Longevity Pill. All of them could be purchased from the Tianxuan Mirror. The price was steep, but buying the materials, refining them into pills, and selling them would surely turn a profit. Besides, he was hardly short on contribution points at the moment.

Nanfu Province, Jiarong Region. What kind of place is that?

When Li Fan tried to locate Longevity Valley using the coordinates in Linghu Chang's memories, he ran into difficulties immediately: no such place existed within the current territory of the Myriad Immortals Alliance.

Could it be within the Five Elders Council's territory? A sense of foreboding settled over him. Not necessarily. After so many years, with no one passing down any legacy, perhaps it simply goes by a different name now.

He narrowed his eyes and began comparing its topography as recalled from Linghu Chang's memories against the current landscape of the Myriad Immortals Alliance, trying to pinpoint the valley's location. After considerable effort, he gave up in frustration.

I knew the mountains and rivers of the Xuanhuang World were prone to change, but I never imagined it would be this absurd.

Li Fan drew a sharp breath.

In Linghu Chang's memory, the Insect Tail Mountain Range lay near Longevity Valley.

Now, within the territory of the Myriad Immortals Alliance, there were multiple Insect Tail Mountains.

Compared to its state from several thousand years ago, the range appeared to have been sliced into over a dozen segments and scattered in disordered fashion across entirely different locations.

And those were only the parts whose names had survived. The sections that had lost their names entirely were another matter.

Relying on his own power to find the precise location of Longevity Valley would be no different from searching for a needle in a vast ocean.

He could work through each location one by one and find it eventually, given enough time... but it wasn't necessary.

Li Fan's time was extremely valuable. After considering the problem for a long while, he decided to leave it to a professional.

He stored the true Medicine King Cauldron within his grotto-heaven domain and quietly returned to the Congyun Sea. After some research in the Tianxuan Mirror, he found and contacted a cultivator who specialized in the study of ancient and modern topographical shifts: Ximen Yu.

This man's treatise, An Examination of Mountains and Rivers Through the Ages, had achieved wide circulation. Using the ruins of several great ancient sects as fixed reference points, Ximen Yu had performed calculations on shifts in orientation, and several of his results had been verified by many cultivators with minimal margin of error.

Of course, the Xuanhuang World was vast. The examples in An Examination Through the Ages were only proof that Ximen Yu possessed the capability to perform such work.

For those who wanted to pinpoint the current location of a place recorded in ancient texts, it was simple enough: spend some contribution points, and he would solve it.

Ximen Yu's purpose was obvious: he intended to profit from this unique skill of his.

And Li Fan appreciated a man who got things done for pay.

To conceal his true objective, Li Fan submitted over fifty locations scattered across the ancient world in a single order and had Ximen Yu calculate where each of them now lay.

Receiving such a large commission for the first time, Ximen Yu was delighted and insisted repeatedly on offering a discount. Li Fan waved it off and told him to focus on finishing the work quickly.

Having received his deposit, Ximen Yu agreed at once, cut off the communication, and hurried away to begin his calculations.

The extra contribution points spent were of no consequence. For Li Fan, it was just a drop in the bucket, and if it spared him future trouble, it was well worth it.

Calculating the locations of over fifty sites was a major undertaking and would take some time.

Taking the opportunity, Li Fan quietly made his way to Embodiment Island.

A full seven years had now passed since the people from the Li World had been brought here.

Ye Feipeng, Xiao Heng, Sun Erlang, and the others had all grown into fine youths.

Yet because of the rule Li Fan had established, that none of them could leave the island until they defeated the Tian Yang puppet, they had been confined to Embodiment Island without setting a single foot beyond it.

They were all hot-blooded youths, and the confinement had nearly driven them mad.

Still, none of them dared trouble Tian Yang. They spent their days sparring with each other, burning off excess energy.

Li Fan smiled as his gaze swept over them. Without alerting anyone, he made his way to a secret chamber deep within the island. He had installed protective arrays here and given only Tian Yang permission to enter.

Inside, row upon row of jars filled with fresh crimson essence blood stood neatly arranged. From within them came faint, furious roaring. These had been drawn from Ye Feipeng at regular intervals, on Li Fan's orders. It had been a long time since his last visit, and a considerable amount had accumulated.

Even with the bloodline of the Kun-Peng, no one could stay plump under such frequent bloodletting. In this life, Ye Feipeng was nothing like the fat man he had been before. He had grown lean instead, and calling him an elegant young master was truly no exaggeration at all.

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